A website named Cantheyseemydick.com offers the common man a sneak peek into the National Security Agencies' (NSA) surveillance programs by using the relatable context of sending photos of your genitals over the internet.
In an interview, anchor John Oliver asked whistleblower Edward Snowden to explain how vulnerable people's "dick pics" were with respect to various surveillance programs and laws such as, Section 702, Executive Order 12333 and Section 215, reported The Verge.
The website was then created by Olivier Lacan to list those laws and the programs and how they made people's "dick pics" vulnerable to surveillance by the NSA.
It quoted Oliver as saying that the ability of the government to see people's dick pictures is the most visible line in the sand for people when it comes to surveillance overreach.
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